What You Do Matters. Don't Be A Bystander

Coming home from Poland I struggled to put into words my experience the first few days. Of course, people asked me, “How was it?” or “I want to hear all about it!” However, I really wasn’t able to really say how I felt. I settled on a few words every time a different person asked me. Saying, “Amazing" or "Life changing” were my go-to answers. This was usually followed by “Great, good for you!” then some casual banter of what...

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Understanding the Importance of Perspective

Day II - Father Manford’s lecture: Understanding the Importance of Perspective.  When hearing about the Holocaust, it’s quite easy to depict Hitler and the Nazi party, as the most hateful, crazy group of people on Earth. After walking through Auschwitz I and II I was nauseated as to how people thought of this. How did humans systematically, take horse stables, send them on transport, then have thousands of human...

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Pope John Paul II

Today was our second day here in Poland. After a good night’s sleep, I felt great and ready to take on the day! We ate a delicious breakfast and then went off on the bus to drive to Wadowice. While at Wadowice we walked around the town center and saw where Pope John Paul II went to school. Across the street was where Rudolph Hesler, the commander of Auschwitz, had his trial. When entering the museum we received a tour of Pope John...

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